Bank Robber Given 5 Years For 4 Heists

September 13, 2000

FEDERAL COURT — A Chicago man was sentenced to 5 years and 1 month in prison Tuesday for robbing four downtown banks in little more than a month earlier this year.

Tony Ray Cannon, 39, pleaded guilty in June to taking a combined $11,510 from Old Kent Bank, 233 S. Wacker Drive; Superior Bank, 150 S. Wacker Drive; and Citibank, 539 N. Michigan Ave., between March 20 and April 14. He also admitted taking $1,350 in a holdup of the Mid-City National Bank, 1 S. Wacker Drive, on March 10.

Cannon, of the 4000 block of South Federal Street, was arrested when two Old Kent Bank security guards gave chase and caught him hiding in a car several blocks from the bank, said Special Assistant U.S. Atty. Brian Hayes.

Police found $4,030 in cash in Cannon's jacket pocket.

U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras ordered Cannon to pay back the remaining $8,830.